I'd planned to post our annual Tribe Hoops preview today, but I got a call from my boss at 10:30* asking for some changes to a presentation, so my prolix plans were postponed. Instead, far fewer words about music.
(* EST. Worse for him than for me, as I'm in Minnesota.)
Zman alerted us to the brilliance of Birmingham's St. Paul & The Broken Bones a few days ago in the comments section, and we had a group moment. Then, in Williamsburg, Marls and I had a conversation with FOG:TB Dave Fairbank, a fellow-traveler music fan, in which I tipped the veteran Daily Press scribe to the band's brilliance. Or so I thought.
He gave me a half-smile, reached into his laptop case, and pulled out...a copy of Half the City, the band's debut album. It was a cosmic convergence like we haven't seen since Gheorghefest, at least.
And a sign that we need to fill some space with SP&TBB videos. My mind remains blown. These guys are phenomenal.
This post also doubles as a heads up for our Charlottesville readers, as the band plays tonight at The Jefferson, which in its own right is a pretty cool little joint. Get some.
And as a little lagniappe for our viewing audience, when I semi-drunkenly tweeted another FOGTB, Mike Litos, about the band, he gave me this gift in return:
Thursday, October 23, 2014
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i just listened to this "thunderstruck" version last week and had it stuck in my head for days. makes me want to get another banjo . . .
ReplyDeletest paul and the broken bones = too much singing for me.
ReplyDeletei much prefer the new aphex twin.
That's good stuff. first thought was Van Morrison, which is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteis anyone else being asked to prove they are not a robot when leaving a comment here?
ReplyDeleteDanimal, that should tell you something about the exciting nature of your comments...
ReplyDeleteClarence funny. Hahaha.
ReplyDeletethe aphex twin album art is weird and gross
ReplyDeleteaphex twin is a robot.
ReplyDeletei'm not a robot! i was beginning to worry . . .
ReplyDeleteWent to the grocery store at lunch and encountered a truly horrifying site: XXL white woman with dreadlocks, dressed head to toe in Hokie maroon (two kids dressed the same).
ReplyDeleteI'm usually a pretty easy going guy, but I had to fight off some pretty sick impulses there.
check out windowlicker
ReplyDeleteI'm known for doing the robot after a few beers, among other things.
ReplyDeleteI eagerly anticipate Bill Barnwells upcoming 1000 word diatribe on the Titans' QB carousel.
ReplyDeleteI've been known to do the robot when drunk, if the robot is a euphemism for something unmentionable in a fambly blog.
ReplyDelete"Mays...yes Barnwell. Let me tell you, Mays, about this TN QB situation. OK Barnwell."
ReplyDeleteI wonder what Garth Butcher thinks of Cal Clutterbuck.
ReplyDeletesteve nash done for the year. any reason he tries to come back next year? no, right?
ReplyDeleteSad to see Nash go out like this though when you remember that Dallas didn't re-sign in large part because they never thought his back would hold up he had an amazing second half of his career.
ReplyDeleteI saw a brother sister tandem of Junior high white kids with mid-back length dreads when picking up the kid from school today. Even if this 'weed friendly' town (read: town full of stoner surfers) that's not one I'd seen before.
I taught my kid to do the robot. She's more into making the robot noises.
Titans deciding to go with Zach Mettenberger means they're officially done with the Jake Locker experiment, I guess. Wasted 5 years on a guy who wasn't even very good in college.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're a rich man if you got odds on Mettenberger starting and NFL game before Manziel.
If you've been to west Africa recently, please do everyone a favor and quarantine yourself for two or three weeks. God knows why local and state governments have been doing this.
ReplyDeleteHave NOT been doing this, I mean.
ReplyDeleteMore needs to be said about Von Miller's facial hair.
ReplyDeleteWXPN streaming top 885 songs of all time. Currently on 144 - Genesis Supper's Ready. Track length 22:49. Anyone else old enough to have shroomed to that? Just me?
ReplyDeletethe current went back to back with elvis presley and mos def last night. there's still some cool in radio.
ReplyDeleteWebsite ranked the "hotness" of the girls at 730 colleges. Wanna guess how the Tribe ladies fared?
ReplyDeletehttps://colleges.niche.com/college-of-william--and--mary/rankings/?highlight=hottest-girls
JMU only has 'em beat by 600 or so spots.
ReplyDeleteI think all of you are beautiful though. You're a beautiful people.
ReplyDeletePit Bull in the gym this morning. Not PIt Bull. An actual Pit Bull. As in a dog. With a collar. WUT.
ReplyDeleteRob- The Current should've gone back to back with Elvis & Public Enemy.
ReplyDeleteAnd W&M scored a B+ in party scene?
ReplyDeleteI think Pitbull would be more surprising than an actual Pit Bull.
ReplyDeleteW&M party scene is D-, right? Just above the Baptist college?
ReplyDeleteNothing like your house getting hit by lightning and the only real damage is to the TV in the family room, of course the newest one, and all the verizon fios equipment. All of which were fried.
ReplyDeleteAll the verizon equipment inside and outside our house except for one of four cable boxes was bricked. Only difference between the dead ones and the surviving one? No surge protector. WUT
Squeaker, sorry to hear about that, but very glad the damage wasn't worse. My dad's house got hit a few years back and burned to ashes. Very happy that wasn't the case.
ReplyDeleteProbably because he used surge protectors.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Clarence. Heard a big boom in the middle of the night and went back to sleep. Lucky there wasn't a fire.
ReplyDeleteAnd for those you are tech minded. I have a couple if invites to the new Google Inbox app if you are into that sort of thing.
I love being Inbox.
ReplyDeleteZman, you'll love this then. It helps you sort your box, well your inbox.
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